Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-02-20

nsf Be 20 GOD then We led literally
Of roots twice = day. carrots In TIE
morning and suKar beesz e night. with
bran OF shorts. o. both, eznce q day
with timothy hay Tires ntaeS . day
Thea the Temperature Ct the milk
room. or the cream when chnrned. i
never above % ~ 81 degrees Eahrenr
hei1s the butter, when washed, reduced
% 50 or s. degrees With such feed
and such management We have no
trouble in getting that golden color W
winfeE without using any c0loring mai
ter whatever
To make gilt-edge butter IS not 20
easy 20 do Is one might imagine
There are q dozen OF more things ne
eessary; the absence Of any one, al
though all the rest are present. VIII
defeat the end sought.
LIST. The feed must be good, varied
and sound
"a. The cows must be healthy and
Ia good heart.
Sd The stables must be comfortable
and cleanly.
4fh. The milking must be cleaniy,
regular and rapid.
5th. The milk must be quickly re-
moved TO the dairy, kept AZ regular
Temperature, and the cream removed
regularly.
9Th The cream must be kept IT an
even low temperature, ehurning done
regularly and az the proper temper
ature. and the buttermilk thoroughly
removed from the butter.
It'll. The butter must be worked only
enough and not overworked, evenly
salted and properly packed ready for
market.
sth. Last. though not least, the man
agement throughout, from beginning
% end. must be cleanly.
The other day wrote letter to the
Oregonian suggesting the celebrating
the event of the completion of the
Northern Pacific Railroad by the peo-
pie Of Eastern and Western Washing
ton meeting on the summit of the
mountains on the Fourth Of July for
a great, grand iubilee-meet there and
encaInp for a week; fish, hunt, ex-
change opinions, become acquainted
and be folly. The suggestion has
seemed 10 meet with almost universal
favor. Why not the farmers make
that their special day, or rather week.
of rest and recreatiOn2 Rest and re-
creation are Just as essential as work
and stern attention TO the duties Of
life; and in what more fitting way can
we celebrate this great event than 10 go
where we may listen TO the oft-Fepeated
declaration, while seated above the
clouds, upon the summit Of those
mountains 50 long separating us, but
now on soon 10 be surmounted by rail
that bring us together east and west as
one people
looked out from my window today
and saw nine men unloading tile from
the cars standing on the side-track at
Puyallup. While this is only begin
ming in this business, yet it is ene0ur-
aging. Where tiles are laid, there the
thrift is assured; in fact, it is an eVi-
denee Of thrift. While this shipment
that saw the men unloading amount
ed to no more than about thirty or
forty thousand tiles, yet there was fully
q hundred tons weight. There was
probably less than eight miles. In the
State of Illinois for the year 1885 there
was 156, 900 miles of drain tile laid, and
yet We hear the question gravely asked,
viii il pay to drain land7 VIII drain
tile work and like questions.
have no doubt it viii pay wen to
tile-drain wheat land. II, as we hear,
on wet clay land the yield of wheat Is
no more than sixteen bushels per acre,
and on that same kind OF land where
there Is natural drainage it is twenty
i've, then would it seem certain that
draining would pay at cost OF SO an
acre. The increase of say nine bush
els per acre Is nearly all clear gain, as
It costs no more, and usually not so
much, to pillow and seed an acreof dry
land that viii yield twenty-five bushels
per acre than it does an acre OF wet
land; the harvest and threshing ex-
penses would be but a trifie more.
With wheat at IS cents per bushel, and
an increase of nine bushels per acre,
the enhanced value would be certainly
s. per acre per annum, or the interest
upon $50 per acre.
Now come the hop buyers ready 10
contract for next years crop of hops.
Some crops have been sold at Is cents
per pound that are yet 10 be grown.
The system of future contracts Is
vicious in its tendency, demoralizing
in its effects, and Improbable in the
long run for the farmer. Ii IS easy 10
see that II a nonresident buyer con-
tracts for a crop Of hops, he may, If
the price goes down, refuse to receive
them or reject them upon the score OF
quality, and who is TO be the judge
where there is no standard of quality :
II the price goes high, the grower has
no alterl alive but to let the hops go.
On the other hand, the grower is
tempted, il the price goes higher than
the contract figu e, TO pick less care
fully, to cure less thoroughly, and in
other ways neglect his duty. SO say
the tendency Is demOralizing, and the
practice ought to be discontinued.
Some people argue that because buy
ers are willing 10 make these contracts,
therefore We are assured another pros
porous season. This is fallacy. Hop
buyers are not prophets, neither do
they know any more than the grower
what the outcome Of the next worlds
crop viii be, and the price hinges upon
that question altogether. The practice
Of buying or selling crops Of hops not
yet raised is gambling pure and simple.
L. MEKKER.
1mg meusgmOLn.